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• Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Marriage, Funny Love, Funny Relationship

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• No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Night, Owl, Swamps

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• Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

  R. C. Sproul

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

  Hugo Chavez

  Fascists, Humans

  "Shut up, Spain's king tells Chavez". news.bbc.co.uk. November 10, 2007.

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• If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, Political

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• I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Dance, Wells

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• The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Village, Realizing, Economy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

  C. Everett Koop

  Danger, Poisoning

  "The Grandfather of Preventative Health: A Farewell to Dr. C. Everett Koop" by Adam Bosworth, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2013.

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• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

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• I never seen snakes on a plane

  Kanye West

  Planes

  Song: The Good Life

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• As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.

  Ramakrishna

  Body, Spirit, Slough

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Crow, Enemy, Wish

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• Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

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• The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

  Terry Pratchett

  Twists, Enchantment, Looks

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.179, Random House

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• Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.

  Robert Pierce

  Encounters, Rodents, Urban

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• For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stars, Fall, Eye

  "Something Wicked This Way Comes". Book by Ray Bradbury. Chapter 38, 1962.

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• Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.

  Richard Koch

  Work, Train

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• Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.

  Steven Gould

  Australia, Exotic, Said

  Steven Gould (2013). “Impulse”, p.13, Macmillan

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• The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Poison, Arms, Prohibition

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• It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut.

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration, Ruts, Wagons

  "Fictional character: Adrian Cronauer". "Good Morning, Vietnam", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• The Bible says gays arent natural.
  What, and a talking snake is?!

  Russell Howard

  Gay, Talking, Natural

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• It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!

  Nicole Kidman

  Butterfly, Eerie, Spiders

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Oct 26, 2012

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• The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

  James Cameron

  World, Forests, Squeezing

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• One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

  Frank Herbert

  Agony, Skins, Accepting

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.133, Penguin

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• Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Self, Literature

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